The Sixth-Annual Washington Ideas Forum: Conversations With Policymakers, Entrepreneurs, and More in the Nation's Capital

Sep 17, 2014

Washington, D.C. (September 17, 2014)—Entrepreneurs and business visionaries, designers, educational disruptors, leading politicians, media minds, and bold-faced names in science and technology will come together October 29-30 to share their groundbreaking ideas at the sixth annual “Washington Ideas Forum,” presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic. Across two days of rapid-fire interviews and panels at the Harman Center for the Arts, the Forum’s speakers and moderators will discuss the transformative ideas and key issues directly affecting Americans’ national identity, politics, and core values. The Washington Ideas Forum expects to draw an audience of more than 1,500 people across the two days.

Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson will speak about The Innovators, his forthcoming book profiling the people who started the digital revolution, and will moderate portions of the event, along with The Atlantic’s President and Editor-in-Chief James Bennet; Washington Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons; National Correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates; National Correspondent James Fallows; and Editor Scott Stossel; Washington Ideas Forum Editorial Director and Bloomberg View Columnist Margaret Carlson; and MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell. Additional speakers and program moderators will be announced and a full schedule will be shared in the weeks ahead.

Comcast and The Walton Family Foundation are the Presenting Level Underwriters of the Forum. The American Federation of Teachers and Google are the Supporting Level Underwriters, and Allstate and GSK are the Contributing Level Underwriters.